Toilet attachment for automobiles



N. BANKS llOILET ATTACHMENT FOR AUTOMOBILES Filed Aug. 30 1921 Patented May '8, 1923.

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aasaeie TOILET ATTACHMENT FOR AUTOMOBILES.

Applicationfiled August 30, 1921. Serial No. 496,832.

T all /2 am it may concern from which a commode device represented Be it known that I. Non'rrinor BANKS, a conventionally at 16, depends, as shown in citizen of the United States. residing at Lamar, inthe county of Barton and State of Fig. 2;

lavatory basin represented at 17 bears 5 Missouri. have invented certain new and useupon the seat base and depends into the com-.

ful Improvements in Toilet Attachments for mode as shown.

Automobiles, of which the followingis a specification. r

hicles of the automobile class. and has for hicles. more particularly" to motor driven veand soap dish 21 or other article.

Formed in the body 12 of the seat end is Embedded in the seat back 11 is a mirror represented atv 18. and also formed in the This invention relates to passenger veseat back is a cavitv 19 for a towel rack 20 one of its objects to provide a combined coma recess or cavity 22 having hangers 23 to mode and lavatory device in one of the seats. support thermos bottles 21 or other articles.

covered and closed by the cushion members.

p seat'cus'hion, represented at 25, when in and cavities or pockets in one or both ends position on the seat base 11, constitutes a and the back of the seat, also covered and closure and cover for the lavatory and comclosed by the end and back cushions.

mode, while a back seat cushion, represented Another object of the invention is to proat 26. forms a closure and cover for the mirvide a device of this character in which a de- 1'01 18 and the 20 vice is produced whereby the various opencavity or recess 19.=

A third cushion Qi is arranged to slide ings and cavities are entirely concealed by beneath'the guide member 14 as shown in the cushions, and in 'which the presence of Pig. 2, and thus forms acover and closure the attachments does not change the appearfor the recess or cavity 22, and its contents.

ance or efficiency of the seat or its, ends or back.

'ith these and other objects in view the The various cushions when in place entirely conceal the openings and therecesses, and present the ordinary appearanceof an invention consistsin certain novel features automobile seat, the presence of the recesses of construction as hereinafter shown and do- In no way interfering with the usual operascribed and then specifically pointed out in tion of the cushions.

0 the claim, and in the drawings illustrative By this simple arrangement a structure is of the preferred embodiment of the invenprovided whereby an automobile isequipped tion with toilet facilities for thecomfort and con- Figure 1 is a perspective viewof a portion venie nce of the occupants while travelling of the seat of a vehicle with portions of the and which does not in any manner detract plied.

Figure 2 is a transverse section of the parts is claimed as new is A vehicle seat comprising a base portion, a back portion and end portions, the end portions having inwardly directed guide ribs at 40 devices are designed to be cushions removed and the improvements apfrom the appearance of the vehicle.

Having thus described the invention, what installed in the seat, preferably the rear seat, their upper edges and recesses in their conof an automobile or like vehicle, the base of fronting faces, cushionelements slidably'enthe seat being indicated at 10, the body of gaging the guide ribs, and a seat cushion elethe back at 11, and the body of oneof the ment bearing at its ends against the end ends at 12.

The arm rest of the seat end is represented at 13, and extending inwardly from the arm rest is a guide rib 1 1 which overhangs the hereto. inner face of the member 12. v

Formed in the seat base 10 is an opening cushion elements and holding them from lateral displacement.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature NORTHRUP BANKS. 

